Table 1 Measured absorption coefficient η, comparative light output and light yield for a CdSe/CdS@PS 1% nanocomposite sample measured under soft X-ray excitation up to 40 keV

From: On the use of CdSe scintillating nanoplatelets as time taggers for high-energy gamma detection

Nano-scint

\(LY^1_{est}\%\)

η TPX

LY meas (ph/MeV)

\({\mathrm{Yield}}^2_{1ns}\%\)

\({\mathrm{Yield}}^2_{10\,ns}\%\)

CdSe/CdS@PS 1%

0.1

0.26

85

60

83

  1. 1Estimated light yield as compared with the LYSO intrinsic light yield at 10 keV and assuming full energy deposition
  2. 2The Yield1ns and Yield10ns represent the percentage of the emission integrated over 1 ns or 10 ns with respect to the total emission integrated over 500 ns